The Crown Prince I’m Raising Has Turned Evil - Chapter 6
Chapter 6: A Bet
It turned out that Xiao Xi had been coming back from making Qin Jue’s medicine. When the guards saw him, they ran up to him asking when Qin Jue was going to wake up and asked to see him, but Xiao Xi wouldn’t allow them to come close. And thus a fight broke out.
Hearing the situation, an idea flashed through Qin Jue’s head.
Covering his wounds with his hands and getting up, the sharp aura disappeared instantly, now replaced by a sickly smile covering his pale face.
“The bet starts now…You don’t have to do anything. I will let you know that I’m completely fine without you repaying the favor.”
Finished, he turned and exited the carriage.
As soon as he appeared, the people outside immediately quieted down.
Their leader, Zhang Yong, made eye contact with several others, then knelt down together!
Seeing their reaction, Qin Jue squinted his eyes and smiled.
He asked softly, “…What are you doing?”
His tone was very neutral as if he wasn’t just seeing the group of people that he considered to be his enemies. His coughing from time to time made him appear to be completely weak.
Seeing this, Zhang Yong lowered his head to face the ground, “Your Highness, we are here to ask for punishment! We are to blame for all the events that happened before. We were blinded by foolishness and listened to the chief official’s temptations and did such horrible things to you!
We now see what we have done wrong and are wholeheartedly willing to escort you to Xiang City. We only hope that Your Highness will grant us a chance to atone for our sins!”
After he finished, all the kneeling guards behind him uniformly kowtowed*!
*The act of kneeling on the ground with both knees and bumping your head against the ground as an act of worship, respect, apology, etc.
“Please give us a chance, Your Highness, let us atone for our sins!!”
Qin Jue sneered after listening.
“Alright.”
His answer was so direct and without hesitation that it made the guards who prepared a lot of rhetoric pause their incoming speech. Then, Qin Jue continued,
“How much of the escort team’s medicine is left? Bring it all here, I’ll prepare the antidote for you all.”
His straightforwardness shocked Zhang Yong that he couldn’t help but ask, “Really?!”
“Of course.”
Qin Jue looked at him, an icy light appeared in his dark pupils yet the words coming out of his mouth were extremely naive.
“Since you have already admitted your mistakes and Xie DaRen is here to supervise, what more is there for me to worry about?”
Then he coughed a few more times, his voice getting even hoarser.
“Besides, we’re still more than a month away from Xiang City. All the things that had happened before…let’s just forget about it. We’re still depending on you the rest of the journey. I only hope that you’re all being honest with your words…”
His generous words erupted cheers from the crowd. When Xie Lin Lang exited the carriage, she heard him say the four words “Honest with your words”.
She couldn’t help but worry, “You’re going to make the antidote right now? You just woke up and your injuries are still very severe.”
Her worried statements left and right made Qin Jue feel as if he was being stabbed by the needles again. He glanced at her, laughing darkly.
“Don’t worry, the antidote is easy to make. But, since it is poison, after all, it’s better that you…stay away from the carriage.”
Like that, Xie Lin Lang somehow was kicked out of her own carriage.
……
Xiao Xi didn’t notice the weird atmosphere surrounding the two. He was only bewildered by what Qin Jue had done after waking up.
After handing Qin Jue his medicine and porridge, he ran over to Xie Lin Lang and whispered.
“GongZi, don’t you think His Highness is being too generous? After the guards treated him like that, all they needed was to ask for forgiveness once, and now he’s making the antidote for them. How does that make sense?”
Xie Lin Lang looked at the innocent kid in front of her but didn’t offer any further explanation. She pointed to the grove not far from there.
“You don’t need to worry about it. Can you use your Qinggong* and bring me over to that grove? I saw two guards going over there to collect firewood.”
*轻功 Qinggong–light Kungfu, skills can include running swiftly and lightly without leaving footprints, and running up walls.
Xiao Xi didn’t understand. What was so special about those two guards that went to find firewood? Still, without question, he brought Xie Lin Lang over.
There were two guards in the grove at this time. But rather than collecting woods, they were whispering in a low tone.
One of them looked very unfamiliar to Xie Lin Lang. She guessed that one was probably the person that had gone missing these past two days.
Xiao Wu nervously reported to Zhang Yong.
“Brother Zhang, after Mistress Hui’s people examined my body, they told me that they are able to cure our poison, so long as we hand Qin Jue to them. After everything is over, they will take us out of the country to start a new life… But I just heard that Qin Jue already offered to give us the antidote. So do we still betray him, and betray His Majesty?”
Hearing his report, Zhang Yong landed a harsh punch on a nearby tree.
“We’ve already come this far, how can we back out now? Do you know what Mistress Hui’s people are planning to do? How will they deal with Qin Jue? And what about Xie Lin Lang?”
Xiao Wu whispered, “They said that they are planning an ambush in three days. When the time comes, we just need to pretend to block them, letting Xie Lin Lang and the Crown Prince go first. Then, they will send another group of people to stop Xie Lin Lang.
This way, even if Xie Lin Lang doesn’t die and goes back to investigate, he’ll only find that we had tried our best, dying to protect His Highness in the line of duty. As a result, they can’t blame it on our family either…”
“Then that’s what we’ll do!” Zhang Yong spoke grimly, “Although Qin Jue agreed to give us the antidote, who knows if it’s the real antidote? We tortured him for a whole month, I won’t believe that he’s just going to be this generous!
Besides, we’ve already come too far, we cannot turn back anymore! I just hope that Mistress Hui can keep her promise. Otherwise, even if we were to die we will drag her down with us!”
After confirming a few more details in this manner, they finally exited the grove.
Only after the two guards had walked a far distance away did Xie Lin Lang come out of the trees.
Beside her, Xiao Xi was extremely angry, “These people are despicable! Even after His Highness agreed to give them the antidote after all they’d done to him, they’re still suspicious of him and plotting behind his back!
GongZi, we have to tell His Highness right away to not give them the antidote and let the poison rot straight through their stomach until they die!”
Finishing, he immediately turned to head back, but was stopped by Xie Lin Lang’s fan pressing on his shoulder.
“Do you really think Qin Jue doesn’t know of this?”
Xiao Xi was stunned, “His Highness knows? Then why is he still giving them the antidote?”
Xie Lin Lang squinted, “Yes, he knows. So why would the medicine he gives out be the antidote?”
Based on how these guards were so sure that Qin Jue would not let them go, it goes to prove even more how cruel they had been to him this whole trip, to the point that it’s beyond forgiveness.
And if Qin Jue isn’t going to forgive them, why would he give them the antidote and let them go?
Not only is Qin Jue not planning on letting them escape, he’s probably even thinking of using these guards to eliminate the upcoming assassins as well. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have made such a bold bet with her.
But he was just a defenseless and powerless young man. How did he plan on killing these two forces in one go?
By poison? The assassins aren’t just going to obediently consume the poison that he hands them. So, what is he planning to do?
Deep into her thoughts, Xie Lin Lang felt that she seemed to have overlooked something important…
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